Does modern society negate evolution?

Question

If evolution is based on Darwins Natural Selection theory, that the strongest or most adapt, survive better than others, is to be held true, then surely in modern society we have an almost negative natural selection process, as the fittest, strongest, cleaverest or most adapt to survive are no longer becoming dominant and having more offspring. In fact those people probably have good jobs and big careers and are probably less likely to have children at all. So do we find the people who are having more children are lower classes, who if anything probably are the weakest, less educated, those maybe less adapt to cope with the vigours of life today. Obivously there's lots of other factors effecting education, class and upbringing and I'm generalising massively.
But generally, we no longer cull the weakest from the herd, but actually do what we can to helping them survive.
Are the differences so small that we will just no longer evolve or will we just gradually negatively evolve?

Answer 1

I answered a question a couple of days ago with a "yes" to your question. Someone asked why so many people are allergic to things nowadays. I think that you are talking about may be why.

Instead of people with allergies and athsma dying off as they would with "survival of the fittest" they get medical attention and live to produce offspring with the same traits. Then of course, THOSE kids have kids, and so on. I teach and I can tell you that in a class of 20, 10 will either be allergic to something and/or have athsma.

Now before people start getting mad at me, just let me say that I am NOT saying we should let people with these medical problems die or deny them care!

I just think that as we keep saving everyone with different health problems (even BEYOND just allergies and athsma) that perhaps we WILL negatively evolve. The man with heart problems may have 10 kids with the same problem and then we are worse off. In more primitive times he would have just passed away and not passed it on. (Once again, of course I am not suggesting we let him die instead.)

I don't have a solution, but I think you may be right. If you ARE right- then I guess we are SOL because I sure don't have a solution- the only thing I can think of is genetic engineering-the new science seems to be very close to giving parents the option to choose genetic traits they want to pass on to their kids......

Answer 2

Not really
Society still makes advances, and the powerful still advance, although they may not have children, but most of the time rich kids are stuck up potheads that don't have parental guidance because mom and dad aren't ever home and have everything handed to them in the form of material goods instead of love.

Answer 3

It just separates human society from animal society.

Answer 4

the truly evolving humans, with super strength and x-ray vision, are probably the ones being aborted, huh?